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slave

noun
/sleɪv/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *slověninъder. Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)der. Late Latin Sclavus Medieval Latin sclavusbor. Old French esclavebor. Middle English sclave English slave Inherited from Middle English sclave, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”), traditionally assumed to be because Slavs were often forced into slavery in the Middle Ages. The Latin word is from Byzantine Greek Σκλάβος (Sklábos); see that entry and Slav for more. Displaced native Old English þēow. Thrall and bondsman/bondswoman, however, remain common synonyms. Doublet of ciao and Slav. An alternative hypothesis derives sclavus from Ancient Greek σκῡλεύω (skūleúō), σκῡλάω (skūláō, “to strip or despoil a slain enemy”).

  1. derived from σκῡλεύω
  2. derived from Σκλάβος
  3. derived from Sclavus — “Slav”
  4. derived from sclavus — “slave”
  5. derived from sclave
  6. inherited from sclave

Definitions

  1. A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and…

    A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

  2. A drudge

    A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

  3. An abject person.

    • Art thou the ſlaue that with thy breath haſt kill'd / Mine innocent child?
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the…

      One who has no power of resistance to something, one who surrenders to or is under the domination of something.

      • a slave to passion, to strong drink, or to ambition
      • Slave to the rhythm! / Keep it up, keep it up! / Never stop! Never stop!

    2. A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or…

      A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who consensually submits to, sexually or personally, serving one or more masters or mistresses.

      • In the clip the black female “slave” dons a chain around her neck for which her white mistress possesses the key. The black woman sub is further disciplined by the power of speech—the force of silence.

    3. A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or…

      A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.

    4. A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of…

      A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).

      • If you administer your own reverse DNS zones, remember to include them in your slave configuration.

    5. To work as a slaver, to enslave people.

      • MASSINISSA: Wilt thou be slaved? SOPHONISBA: No, free
      • The truth is from the Zambesi to Lake Nyasa on the north and east banks of the river, there is nothing but slaving — Africans selling each other . . .

    6. To work hard.

      • I was slaving all day over a hot stove.

    7. To place a device under the control of another.

      • to slave a hard disk
      • Slaving one digital audio device to another unit using timecode alone results in time-based synchronisation[…]

    8. Alternative form of Slavey.

    9. Synonym of Sclavia.

    10. Obsolete form of Slav.

      • Slaves or Slavì of Pomerania, with their confederates defeated near Lunden in Scania, […]
      • Moldavia and Wallachia, inhabited by Slaves nominally belonging to the Turkish empire, are in the actual military occupation of Russia. Servia, inhabited by the Slavic Serbs, is avowedly disloyal to the Porte, […]

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Derived

antislave, antislaver, antislavery, app slave, beslave, blood-red slave-maker, bondslave, cock slave, debt slave, energy slave, enslave, enslavement, enslaven, enslaver, ex-slave, field slave, financial slave, footslave, fuckslave, galley-slave, galley slave, HM slave, houseslave, house slave, inslave, Lesser Slave River, love slave, master-slave manipulator, multislave, nonslave, no slave to fashion, postslavery, preslavery, proslaver, pseudoslave, semislave, sex slave, sexual slavery, slave ant, slave auction · +72 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at slave. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01slave02indentured03indenture04apprentice05master

A definitional loop anchored at slave. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at slave

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA